Neal Reiter (Yale SOM 10), Lead for AML and Fraud Prevention at IdentityMind
“New York has put into place its BitLicense under the guise of protecting citizens from dubious crypto operators.”
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David Hoffman (YC 98), UPenn Legal Scholar of Smart Contracts and ICOs
“I’d encourage students to keep an open mind and not fall in love with any particular idea. I hope they’ll think for themselves about how to best use their time, their resources, and their energy.”
Miko Matsumura (Neuroscience M.S. 91), Co-founder of Evercoin Crypto Exchange and General Partner at Gumi Cryptos
“I think [Bitcoin being unstoppable] is actually a very accurate assessment, because what we’re talking about is open source: a self-improving and planetary matrix, competing for people’s consent.”
Ted Lanpher (YC 77), Co-founder of Pareto Network, P2P Financial Content Marketplace
“Now, blockchain is just the latest technology platform which can deliver investment information; we believe that we’re pioneering how this latest generation of technology transforms market research and the sharing of investment information.”
Mercina Tillemann (YC 15), Chief Operating Officer of the Global Blockchain Business Council
“We focus more on the problems that blockchain technology can solve, and the problems for which it is the best tool to solve.”
Taurai Chinyamakobvu (Yale Mandela Washington Fellow ’14), Founding Chairman of Zimbabwe’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange
“Cryptocurrencies have grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade since they came into being. They started from the periphery, but are now dominating debate at both policy and regulatory levels– something that was unthinkable five years ago”
Yuri Cataldo (School of Drama ’08), Host of The Coin Chat and Author of Be Left Behind
“When I was a designer, my art was my livelihood, and I needed to know that I would be paid on time; implementing Smart Contracts is really exciting because you don’t have to worry about that anymore.”
Antonio Simeone (Financial Markets Certificate ’14), Co-Founder and Algorithmic Trader at Euklid
“If you give legal value to information that is registered immutably on the blockchain, then you don’t need to pay $50 thousand every year just to have another company reconciling numbers.”